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Manga Monday Ep 114: Jinrui-Shoku: Blight of Man Manga Review / Weird Science Manga & Anime

April 24, 2023·51 min·4 clips

Luke reveals the manga's title is a tongue-twister so hard it might be a code from Cypher Academy.

The name is already a problem. Before the review really starts, Jim and Luke treat the manga like a tongue twister that wandered over from Cypher Academy. Spooky, sure, but the bit is that reading the title might be the scarier task. That puts the whole review on shaky, teasing ground. They are not sold. One host says he liked it, then almost talks himself out of that as they walk through the chapter. Hayato's cough becomes the hook. Since the setup is strange and everyone reacts a little off, the read turns into a run of theories: maybe Hayato is dead, maybe he is a zombie, maybe the cough is just there to drag the plot along. The cough feels thin to them. They keep coming back to details that get announced loudly, then used in a pretty flat way. Seda works better. He feels like the chapter's gem because his arrival makes the rest of the school look hilariously bored and desperate for novelty. The second Seda mentions showing up six months ago, the hosts imagine kids lining up to become his best friend. The riff gets looser from there. Ghost soccer, haircut bowl sizes, and random compliments all become ways to poke at how quickly everyone buys into him. Hayato stays on the outside. When Seda picks the dirty, dark, supposedly stay-away kid, the hosts grab onto that friendship as the one thing with some shape. They like easygoing Seda, but they keep asking whether the chapter is building mystery or just waving odd props around. The mom angle hangs around too. By the end, they land at 6.5 and 6.8, with a cautious maybe that the series could get better once it has room to grow. Nobody sounds converted. The mood is long-shot curiosity: this manga might earn a weekly review spot someday, but it has work to do first.

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A spooky Manga Monday conversation that stays playful while it keeps circling the premise.

Jim and Luke give this Manga Monday outing a spooky, loose-limbed energy. They keep circling Hayato's coughing, toy with the zombie angle, and let the weirdness of the school setup do a lot of the work.

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You want spooky manga banter that keeps turning a bizarre title into a running bit.

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